
She walks ahead of the group, and by faking a sprained ankle, she talks her way into joining them. Jaime visits a local backpacking store in Buena Vista and finds out Sara’s route. Jaime decides to accept what is a free holiday, and looking at the photo in the file, spending time with a beautiful woman. The information the FBI agent provides Jaime makes her think that there isn’t a serious threat, and the agent tells her that her presence is precautionary. They ask her to go backpacking in the Collegiate Peaks area outside Denver to get close to Sara on her trek and to give her protection.
At work, she is called in by her Captain and introduced to an FBI agent. Jaime Hutchinson is a busy detective who spends most of her free time backpacking. What the group doesn’t know is that Sara is the estranged daughter of a Senator who has received threats against his life, and she feels that they are so distant from each other that she has turned down the offer of FBI protection. The last two weeks are spent backpacking on a route kept secret so that family members don’t intrude, and this is where we join them. She offers a 12-week residential course for ten women at a time that includes group therapy, nutrition, counseling, etc.
Sara Michaels is the founder and CEO of a business that helps women take control of their own lives.
There is, of course, a romance at the heart of it, and the women who appear very different on the surface are not so different underneath. The Target by Gerri Hill is a thriller out of Gerri Hill’s top drawer, and the story, along with the narration, made sure that I spent half the book looking over my shoulder.
